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Buildern manages the build once you've won it. Bolster wins it for you — pricing every line with live regional costs so contractors quote 5× faster and win 20% more jobs with proposals clients upsell themselves.
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Buildern estimates from cost catalogs you build and maintain by hand. Bolster's AutoCost prices every line with real, region-specific material and labor costs from 100M+ items — so your quote is accurate the moment you finish it, not the moment you last updated a spreadsheet.
Buildern shares budgets and selections through a read-only client portal. Bolster turns any estimate into an interactive proposal where clients add good/better/best upgrades and options themselves — no awkward upsell call, bigger average job.
Describe the project and Bolster's Construction Intelligence runs the entire flow — scoping the work, building the estimate, measuring the takeoff, and generating photoreal renderings and options like the one shown. Buildern keeps each of those steps manual and disconnected.
The features that decide whether you win the job — and how fast you can quote it.
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| Live regional material & labor pricing | Manual cost catalog | |
| Native AI takeoff & estimating | ||
| AI scope, renderings & Construction Intelligence | ||
| In-proposal upsells, upgrades & selections | Read-only selections | |
| Client portal | ||
| Project management & scheduling | ||
| Built-in payments (invoicing, ACH, cards) | ||
| Subcontractor portal & RFIs | Buildern leads here | |
| Budget forecasting + QuickBooks & Xero | QuickBooks | QuickBooks & Xero |
"A bathroom — done before I leave the customer's home. A kitchen, 80% done before I leave. I'm not spending four hours a weekend writing estimates anymore."
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